Surveillance Video Shows Shooting on CTA Bus

"I grew up in the Dearborn Homes, at 29th and State," Jones says as he begins the narrative of his life story.

His mother, he says, was on drugs.

"I knew she was on drugs, you know what I’m saying, when I was a baby, when I came out of her womb," he says as he sits in a small prison interview room.

He has no idea where his father is.

Jones was a Fenger High School freshman, living with a foster mom at 104th and Aberdeen when the shooting took place.

His head, he acknowledges, was not in the classroom, but on the street, where he was a member of the Black P. Stone Nation street gang. He joined when he was 10 or 11 years old, he recalls, and got his first gun at age 14.

It was a .40 caliber handgun gun purchased through a gang connection, he said.

On the afternoon of May 10, 2007, Kevin Jones was on his bike. His friend Michael "Mario" Pace was on foot and in the middle of a dispute with members of his own gang.

Jones gave Pace his gun and momentarily left.

"It was like man, stay right here. Don’t do nothing dumb with this gun," he recalls.

When he returned to the area at 103rd street a few minutes later, he said there was no one around. He phoned a friend.

"They told me Michael jumped on the bus and shot the bus, shot the bus up," Jones says. "And I looked at the news. That’s when I found somebody had got shot."

Five innocent teenagers were shot. Among them was Blair Holt, who'd thrown his body over another a classmate in an effort to protect her.

Blair was 16. He loved to read. He wrote music. He volunteered. When the shooting began, he placed his body over a classmate’s in order to protect her.

Blair was the only child of Ron and Annette Holt, who often speak publicly of the sorrow that remains.

"Everyday we think about him. And it’s really hard, I mean, losing your child in such a violent way, especially if your child is such a good child," Annette Holt told a group of college kids.

Jones says he didn't know Blair Holt, but said he understands the pain caused the day.